Dr Eisenberger's proposal employs ceramic blocks similar to those found in a car's catalytic converter.

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The idea of this Vivo X1 is that BBK wants to take audio very seriously on its new flagship phone, which is why it's been given a Cirrus Logic CS4398 digital-analog converter plus a CS8422 sample-rate converter -- a combo that's seemingly popular amongst Hi-Fi connoisseurs and manufacturers.

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The primarily glossy red device casually holds your iPod video, and provides a Source, Format, and Connect button to go along with the volume keys, and houses Marvell's 88DE2710 digital video format converter to handle the upscaling.

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Pixim's innovation is to give each pixel its own analog-to-digital converter so that photons are continuously converted to ones and zeros and the camera's microprocessor can tell exactly how fast each pixel is filling up relative to the other pixels.

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Those charges are funneled en masse through a single analog-to-digital converter, which outputs each pixel's value in ones and zeros.

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Mezzanine lenders typically make high-rate (18% to 24%) loans--unsecured in many large projects--to the converter to help him cover the building's mortgage while the property is in flux.

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Launched by BBK spin-off Vivo in Beijing just now, this 5.7-inch Xplay takes one step further from its smaller X1 and X1S cousins by packing one extra audio chip, the OPA2604 op amp from Texas Instruments, in order to add extra oomph to Cirrus Logic's CS4398 DAC and CS8422 stereo asynchronous sample-rate converter -- both of which are featured on the X1 series.

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The company's providing some video for users, as well as a converter app to make custom footage.

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